Frozen confection



Sept. 4, 1934.

M. SCHNAIER FROZEN CONFECTION Filed March 26, 1950 l lllll III I flilrllzzr zlllz INVENTOR M75012 fink/e021" BY amnm ATTORNEYS Patented. Sept.4, 19a 7 I page are are 1,972,799

FROZEN CONFECTION Milton Schnaier, New York, N. Y., assignor to ThePopsicle Corporation of the United States, a corporation of DelawareApplication March 26, 1930, Serial No. 438,937

1 Claim. (Cl. 99- 16) My present invention, while capable of a wider aretwisted together to form a handle 15, each held of usefulness, isparticularly adapted for emwire being connected to the handle byaninbodiment in a frozen confection of the character tegral angularoffset 16. The arms 1'7 together in which a frozen molded edible body isserved with the offsets 16, serve to form a skeleton bas- 5 to thepublic with a handle attached thereto, ket adapted to be slipped overthe end of the so that the person eating the confection may confection10b. The wires are preferably springy conveniently hold the handle inhis fingers withand tend to converge toward their free'ends so outdanger of soiling them. It is further conthat as this basket like handleis applied to the cerned with a method of making such confecconfection,the wires have an inherent tendency l0 tions and with handle means forthem. to press inwardly toward the center of the con- 65 This generaltype of confection is disclosed in fection, thereby causing the arms andtheir exprior Patent No. 1,505,592, granted to Frank W. tension tips 18to melt their way in and become Epperson and dated August 19, 1924, andpreffirmly bonded and frozen to the icy body 10b by erably consists of asyrupy product frozen about regelation.

one end of a porous wooden handle stick and In Fig. 2, there is shownanother form of the 70 bonded thereto by the freezing process. Theinvention which is in all substantial respects, confection is eaten bysucking the edible material quite similar to Fig. 1. Here however, thefrozen while holding the device by the handle, much in confection 100 isof rectangular cross section the manner of an ordinary lollipop orall-day and there are accordingly provided four spring 20 sucker. wirearms 17a having theirlends twisted to form 7 One object of the presentinvention is so to a handle 15a to which the individual wires areassociate a handle with the confection that the connected by integraloffsets 16a. In this case, danger of soiling the fingers while consumingthe one wire lies against and tends to press indelicacy is reduced to aminimum. wardly at each of. the four sides of the con- Another object isto insure against the inadfect'ion and to embed itself and become frozenin vertent separation-of the frozen dainty and its the icy body. handlewithout the need for actually freezing the In Fig. 3, there is shownanother embodiment handle into the confection during the process of ofthe invention in which a handle is applied to forming the latter. h thefrozen confection 10d after the latter has In accordance with oneembodiment of the been formed. This type of handle is character- 3invention, instead of freezing the confections to ized by the ease withwhich it may be applied a handle, they are frozen in suitable molds andto the confection 10d and also by the simplicity the handlessubsequently applied as and when of its construction. It consists merelyof a length the confections are served, the handles being so of springwire spirally bent to provide one or more designed that they will tendtomelt their way convolutions 19 connected to a straight handle into theconfections and become intimately end 20 by a radial connecting piece21, which bonded with them by regelation. lies flatly against the end ofthe body 10d. The

The invention may be more fully'understood inherent tendency of theconvolute section of from the following description in connection withthe wire is such as to cause it to contract to a 40 the accompanyingdrawing, wherein Y diameter slightly less than the normal diameter 5Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a modified form of the confectionitself. To applythis handle, of the invention in which the handle isapplied it is merely necessary to squeeze the convolusubsequent to thefreezing operation. tions together, thereby enlarging their diameterFig. 2 is a perspective view of another modiso that they may be s lippedover the confection .45 fication, and in a frictionless manner until themember 21 Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective detail illusabuts the endof theconfection. Thereupon, when trating a further modification. theconvolute portion of the wire is released, the

In Fig. 1, I have shown an embodiment of convolutionsimmediately springapart and conthe invention in which the confections are frozen tra t,tending to bit i to the confection and b 50 as solid blocks of materialand the handles subcome bonded thereto by melting and regelation.sequently applied to them. Here the handle in- While I have shown theconfections as either cludes a plurality of spaced fairly fine gaugerectangular or circular cross-sectional shape, it wires 1'7 slightlyconverging toward their free will be apparent that they may assume manyends and formed at such ends with inwardly 61- other forms.

55 rected tips 18. The opposite ends of the wires It will be understoodin connection with Figs,

1, 2 and 3 that similar handles may be applied at each end on thepre-frozen body so that both hands may be employed in eating theconfection and the danger of soiling the fingers minimized.

A confection comprising a frozen edible body and a holder, said holderhaving a plurality of spaced convolutions normally of a diameterslightly less than the body portion, said convolutions adapted to beincreased in diameter by axial compression to slip over the end of thebody portion and when the compression is released will tend to assumetheir normal diameter, the con-' traction causing the convolutions tofirmly engage the frozen body and become embedded therein and bondedthereto by regelation.

MILTON SCHNAIER.

